Yowich 1953 7 Eskimo Notes Point Barrow, Alaska May 22 hurdles are passed. The population is now immune, naturally or medically, from such scourges as small pox and measles. Details of these relationships I have not read. Bailey in his "Bride of Alaska" found about 400 persons in Barrow. There are now said to be from 900 to 1500, depending on season and census. To investigate the way of life of the eskimos I went out on the ice pack last evening between 8 and 11. It was the first good clear day since my arrival. The ice for about a mile or so out from shore is fairly smooth, with occasional small blocks of old ice frozen up in it. Then there is the first pressure ridge, an area of broken ice slabs tossed up to- together in a ridge roughly paralleling the shore and 5' to about 20' tall, just heaps and heaps of ice cakes. There is then rough and smooth ice with partial ridges and undisturbed areas for the next 1/4 mile, a second more or less continuously defined ridge, and finally smooth ice, with some old cracks in it, for.